After the flu had ravaged their team for nearly a week, clubhouse officials decided they were done letting this flu bug run their team. So while the team was away playing the Detroit Tigers over the weekend, the entire clubhouse was fumigated and disinfected. They set off foggers with flu-killing gas and had all of the common areas disinfected.

They went through that cleaning process several times while the players were away, and that’s because clubhouses can become germ farms, with players in various states of dress and cleanliness tossing their dirty clothes and used equipment around. “Clubhouse” is a nice way to refer to these big team areas, but they’re essentially locker rooms. And with all the players using this one locker room it’s not hard to imagine how the flu got around.

The Red Sox are enduring an outbreak of the flu, and no one is safe. (AP)

The Minnesota Twins have seen what’s been going on with the Red Sox, and of course they don’t want their team to fall victim to the Red Sox Flu. They’re starting a series against the Tigers on Tuesday, and that means they’d be the next ones to use the visiting clubhouse at Comerica Park. The same visiting clubhouse the flu-riddled Red Sox just vacated. So they asked that the Tigers take a few precautions.

Dombrowski says on NESN that the Twins, who play in Detroit tomorrow, called ahead: Comerica Park visitors' clubhouse will also be fumigated